Impacts of Megaconferences on the Water Sector E-Book

Asit K. Biswas

• Herausgeber: Springer Berlin
• Kategorie: Wissenschaft und neue Technologien
• Serie: Water Resources Development and Management
• Sprache: Englisch
• Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2009

Beschreibung

The book is the first pioneering study to assess the impacts of the megaconferences on water policies, programmes and projects at global, regional and national levels. The results are bleak. The evaluation indicated that except for the UN Water Conference, held in Argentina in 1977, the impacts of the subsequent megaconferences have been at best marginal in terms of knowledge generation and synthesis, poverty alleviation, and/or environmental conservation.